Make-up device for printers.



F. W. LAKE.

MAKE-UP nEvIcE Fon PRINTERS.

APPLICATION FILED AuGJ, 1913. ig 2,105, Patented June 8, 1915.

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THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTOLITHO., WASHINGDN. D. C.

FRED W. LAKE, 0F MOLINE, ILLINOIS'.

MAKE-UP DEVICE FOR PRINTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 8, 1915.

Application filed August 7, 1913. Serial No. 783,446.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that l, FRED 1V. LAKE, a residentof Moline, in the county of Rock island and State of illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Make-Up Devices forPrinters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention relates to devices for the use of printers and moreparticularly for book-printing in which a number of pages are printedupon a sheet and afterward folded and trimmed. In this class of work, itis important and desirable that the type or plates for each page shouldbe properly alined and spaced relatively to the other pages printed onthe same sheet, in order that each page will be correctly printed on thepages.

The present invention designs to provide a make-up device which can bereadily adjusted or set.

The invention also designs to provide an improved make-up guide, which,when once set by a competent printer', will enable a subordinate toquickly and accurately and uniformly make up all of the forms for bookin strict accordance with its adjustments, so that they will all becorrectly made up.

The invention further designs to provide an improved make-up devicewhich facilitates the work and insures accurate makingup, alining andregistering of the pages in a form.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter setforth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a plan of a device-embodying the invention.F ig. v2 is a side elevation of a portion of the device Fig. 3 isa'sectlo'n on an enlarged scale. through the swivel connection betweenthe gage-carrying bar and its guiding means. Fig. l is a detail plan,partly in section7 of the adjustable connection between the gagecarryingbar and one of the lingers.. Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 5-5 of Fig. et. Fig. 6 is a sectionthrough the guide-collar for thecarrying-bar. Fig. 7 is a plan of the connection between the bar forspacing one row of page-forms from anotherA and the scale bar on whichit is adjustably mounted. Fig. 8 is a side elevation thereof.

The make-upf device is adapted to bek mounted on an imposing stone ortable which .usually comprises a stone a and a surroundmg frame a and isremovable therefrom so that the device can be separated from the tablewhen use of the make-up device is not desired. A pair of sockets 10 aresecured to the frame a of the table and studs 11 rigidly secured in theends 12 of a guide-bracket 13, i'it into said sockets and are providedwith shoulders 14 adapted to rest upon the top thereof to rigidly, butremovably, support the guide-bracket 13. Ends 12 also rest upon thestone a. By employing these studs and sockets, the entire make-up devicewill be lsecurely held against lateral movement relatively to the stone,and when the studs are lifted out of the sockets, it may be separatedand lifted away from the table.

A shaft 15 extends longitudinally of bracket 13 and is secured yin ends12 by screws 16. A bar 17 having a longitudinallyextending channel 18 inthe top thereof, also extends between and is secured in the bracket-ends12. Shaft 15 serves as a pivotal support and guide for a gage-carryingbar 19. The pivotal connection between the carrying-bar 19 and shaft 15comprises a long collar 20 which lits around and is slidable on theshaft to permit the gagebar to be moved longitudinally of the shaft. Thepivotal connection between the collar 20 and shaft 15 permits thecarrying-bar to be swung about the axis of shaft 15, to lift thecarrying-bar above the forms so that itcan be moved longitudinally. Ashoe or block 24 is adapted to slide in the groove 18 of bar 17 and. thecarrying-bar 19 extends through said block or shoe. This shoe serves totruly and accurately guide the carrying-bar and to hold it squarely withrespect to the bracket 12, permitting the bar to be adjusted laterallywith respect to the plates or type, and supports the bar so it will beclose to but clear of the type or forms in the chase..` A swivelconnection between the collar 20 and the inner end of the carrying-barpermitsthe carrying-bar to be rotated relatively-to the collar to effectreversal ofthe devices carried by the bar. That is, tonpermit the bar tobe swung 180D so thatthe devices on one side of the bar may be shiftedto the other side or reversed. This swivel-connection'comprises a collar21eccured to the inner end of bar 19 by a screw 22 and ournaled in asocket 23 in collar` 20.' Collar 21 is removably held in said socket*ico by alscrewcollar Y44 on collar 20.7 Bar 19 is round at 25, tokpermit the bar to turn in collar 44. p v 'f The chase 26` is adapted'to abut 'against the edge of bar 17 of bracket 143. When a chase withthe usual number, "(16) of forms of. type or plates thereon is laid inthis position, the make-up device will be operative above the forms toguide the subordinate in correctly'making-up, alining and registeringthem. Y

At one side,-the carrying-bar 19 is provided with four -guide-fingers27, each of which has one ofits faces at right angles to thelongitudinal straight edge of the carrying-.bar -`to 'form right 'anglesquare for accurately positioning a corresponding number fof plates 'orpages of type. These lingers are adjustable longitudinally of thecarrying-barso that they may be accurately set according to the Isize ofthe forms andthe margins and trimming, to `give the correctlateralspacing or side-margins between the pages'on the sheet. After theselingers and bar 31 lon -garge l30 have been lcorrectly 'set for Ithepages of a form, which can be carefully done by an lexperienced printer,one with less `skill may readily make-up, aline and 'register themwithout difficulty. Each finger 27 lis ladjlista-bly connected to bar 19by 'a cros'shead V28 which is rigid with the yfinger and has arib 29ladapted to t into f the narrow portion of the T-shaped slot 30 formedin 'one -edge 'of the bar 19. These fingers are adapted tobe locked orclamped in desired position on the bar by screws 31 having heads -32formed to fit and slide in the inner or enlarged portion of the T-'slot30, 'the screws extending through head28 and being :provided withnuts 33by which the 'headsv28 may be clamped to the carrying-bar 19, 'sothatthe fingers kv'27 and the edge of bar 19 will form correct rightvangles.

yadjusting these-lingers to correspond to the 7correct places forspacing for the pages, the carrying-bar, when placed overl the forms,will correctly indicate 'the position foreach form in -a row of pages.The forms, when made up according `to 'said angles, will leave the'desired margin for trimming and binding, yand by following the locationand angle indicated-by the carrying-bar and fingers, great accuracy anduniformity -in mak- Ving-up and aliningfthepages of va form will beattained. f A graduated iscale'BO is 'secured to the edge Aof thel"carrying-bar 19 Aopposite to -that from which lingers 27 extend, andastrai'ghtr edge or bar 3.1f is slidably mountedV on the scale, so vthatit :may be adjusted to and from the--carryingba'r 19'. Bar 31" serves asa gage lfor indicating the proper topf and bottom `sp'aci'-ng betweenthe topsrof pages,

or spacing between 'one-row of pagesjand the next, and lso that thepages will be properly spaced apart in length. Each bar 31 is adjustablysecured to the scale bar 30 by a screw 38 which is adapted to clamp saidbars together and against relative movement.

YThe operation of the improved device will be as follows: chase withanumber of page-forms therein is placed against the side of bar 17 ofbracket 13, so that it will be in definite relation to the bracket 13.VThe fingers 27 will be set in properly spaced relation on thecarrying-bar 19 to correspond to the correct side-spacing between thepages, and the gage-bar 81 will be set at a distance from the edge ofbar 19 between the ends of said pagesto the correct distance betweencorresponding ends of two adjacent rows of pages and to leave thecorrect marginal spaces. The operator can slide the carrying-barlongitudinally, as a result ofthe sliding vconnection between lthecollar 2O and shaft 15 and the sliding-connection between block 24 'andthe grooved bar 17, until the carrying-bar is correctly located for onerow of forms or pages. The fingers on bar -19 and its contiguousstraight edge willconstitute rightangle squaresfor guiding the operatorin making-up, alining and registering the forms in one row.. Nhen thefingers have been once adjusted to give the correct sidespacing betweenthe pages, the operatorV need only 'follow the indications of theright-angle squares formed by 'the fingers andthe carrying-bar 19, andindoingthis, all the page-forms fwill be accurately `aline/d and will.be correctly spaced from one another. l/V hen one side of a-row of pagesof form has been thus made up, bar 1-9 will be lifted upwardly towithdraw shoe or block 24 fronigroove 18 to "clear the forms, and the.carrying-bar can then bev turned in its swivel connection with thesliding collar Y20, to bring-the fingers upon the opposite side of Vthebar and to bring the spacing-bar 31 into registry with the edges of arow of plates vwhich have `been made-up. By bringing the gage-bar intoiegistrywith the Jedges of the pages'which have been made up, the rightangle squares formed by the fingers 27 and bar 19V will be correctlyspaced relalength of the pageslor'the desired top and bottom margins.This operation may becontinued until all of theplates or pages in achase have been made up.

Vtively "to the ends of the row of made-up forms 'to insure the proper'spacing forthe forms. The work of making-up, alining and registeringforms is greatly facilitated and great accuracy is attained,particularly by those not so well skilled in the art.'

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details setforth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appendedkclaims without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is:

l. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, adapted tobe secured to a support, a bar slidably and pivotally mounted on theguide, and fingers forming rigid right-angle squares with the edge ofthe bar and extending horizontally therefrom, and adjustablelongitudinally thereon to indicate the correct position of a row ofpages.

2. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, means forremovably securing the guide to a support, a bar slidably and pivotallymounted on the guide, and fingers adjustable longitudinally along thewhole length of the bar to indicate the position of a row of pages.

3. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracketadapted to be secured to a support, a shaft held in said bracket, a barslidably mounted on the shaft, means between the bar and the bracket forguiding the bar longitudinally of the shaft, and fingers on the bar forindicating the position of a row of pages.

4f. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracket,means for securing it to a support, a shaft held in said bracket, a barslidably and pivotally mounted on the shaft, means between the bar andthe bracket for guiding the bar longitudinally of the shaft, and ngerson the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages.

5. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracketadapted to be secured to a support, a shaft held in said bracket, a barslidably mounted on the shaft, means between the bar and the bracket forguiding the bar longitudinally of the shaft, and ingers extendinghorizontally from said bar and adjustable thereon for indicating theposition of a row of pages.

6. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a barslidably mounted on the guide, adjustable fingers extending horizontallyfrom one side of the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages,means for securing said-fingers in adjusted position, and a connectionfor the bar which permits the fingers to be reversed from one side totheother. Y

7. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a bar slidably and pivotally connected to the guide, adjustable fingersextending horizontally from one side of the bar, means for securing saidlingers injadjusted position, and a connection for the bar which permitsthe fingers to be reversed from one side to the other.

8. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, meanswhereby the guide may be secured to a support, a bar slidably andpivotally connected to @the guide, fingers at one side of the bar forindicating the position of a row of pages, and a gage-bar at the otherside of the slidable bar for spacing the slidablebar relatively to a rowof pages.

9. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a barslidably connected to the guide, fingers adjustable on and at one sideof the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, an adjustablegagebar at the other side of the slidable bar for spacing the slidablebar relatively to a row of pages, and a swivel connection for theyslidable bar which permits it to be reversed.

l0. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a barslidably connected to the guide, fingers adjustably carried by the barfor indicating the position of a row of pages, a scale-bar on said firstbar, and an adjustable gage-bar on the scalebar for spacing the slidablebar relatively to a row of pages.

ll. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, a barslidably and pivotally connected to the guide, fingers adjustablycarried by the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages, ascale-bar on saidy first bar, and an adjustable gagebar on the scale-barfor spacing the slidable bar relatively to a row of pages.

12. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide, means forsecuring the guide to a support, a bar slidably and pivotally connectedto the guide, lingers on one side of the bar for indicating the positionof a row of pages, a scale-bar projectingfrom the other side of saidbar, a gagebar on the scale-bar for spacing the slidable bar relativelyto a row of pages, and a swivel connection for the slidable bar whichpermitsV its reversal.

13. In a printers make-up device,1 the combination of a guide-bracket,means for removably securing it to a support, comprising studs andsockets, a bar slidably'and pivotally connected to said bracket, fingers'at one side of the bar for indicating the position of a row of pages,an adjustable gagebar at the other side of the slidable bar forpositioning the slidable bar relatively to a row of pages and fascale-bar upon which the gage-bar is mounted.

14. In a printersv make-up device, the combination of a guide-brackethaving a grooved guide, means for detachably securing said bracket to asupport, a shaft held in said bracket, a bar rslidably mounted on theshaft, means on the bar adapted to engage the grooved-guide for guidingthe bar longitudinally of the shaft, and fingers on the bar forindicating the position of a row of pages.

' l5. In a printers make-updevice, the combination of a guide-bracket, ashaft held in said bracket, a collar slidably and rotatably mounted onthe shaft, a bar, acollar on the bar and means for pivotally connectingthe collar onV the shaft and the collar on the bar to form a swivelconnection, and fingers on the bar for indicating the position of a rowof pages.VV

16. In a printers make-up device, the combination of a guide-bracket, ofa shaft held in said bracket, a collar slidably and rotatably mounted onthe shaft and provided With a socket, a bar, a collar on the bar fittinginto said socket, means for rotatably securing the collar on the bar'insaid socket on the slidable' collar and ngers on the bar for indicatingthe position of a row of pages. t

17. In a printers make-up device, the

combination of a guide, means whereby the guide 'may be adjustablysecured to a support, the bar having a .groove extending lengthwisethereof, said bar being slidably connected 'to the guide, fingers on oneside ofthe bar for indicating the position of a row of pages and meansfitting the groove Voff 'the bar and 'connected to the fingers for fthereof passing through the fingers, and adjustable means for securingthe means to secure the fingers on the bar.

FRED W. LAKE. f

VVitnesses: n W. PARSONS, D. JONES.

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